@zaccrain has emerged as the most important journalist of his generation in #Dallas. While his entire body of work is stellar, his latest offering in this month's @DMagazine is a masterpiece and a masterclass in story-telling. 
The story he tells is a story that Dallas has long worked hard to hide. As I wrote in my latest non-fiction book #SomethingInTheWater, Dallas is America's capital of functional white supremacy. Not was, but is. Among many horrors, Zac's work could be presented as Exhibit A.
I commend it to anyone seeking to understand how Dallas made its way to the very bottom of the @urbaninstitute 's list as the most racially segregated, racially inequitable city in America (2018).
At the heart of this piece, I hear a call for reparations. Not charity, parks, grants, or scholarships, but reparations. I'm not sure that Dallas is ready to have that conversation. Until Dallas is ready to have that conversation, all other talk of racial equity is lip-service.
Bravo, Zac. Bravo.
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